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Santorum keeps needling Perry

With Michele Bachmann on the defensive over her suggestion that the HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation, it's former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum who continues to flog the issue tonight.

In a statement to reporters, Santorum communications director Hogan Gidley took a jab at Rick Perry for saying his proposed HPV vaccine mandate should have been structured as an opt-in, rather than an opt-out program.

"I'm glad Governor Perry is finally listening to Rick Santorum - and now understands a conservative position: that the government take-over of a 12-year old girl's body is a bad idea," Gidley said. "Hopefully Senator Santorum can now get Governor Perry to flip his position on building a border fence, giving special tuition rates for children of illegals, and supporting gay marriage at the state level."

Like Bachmann, Santorum has the kind of ironclad social-conservative credentials that make the HPV vaccine mandate an easy target for him in this campaign.

He's gone after Perry on the issue in both GOP primary debates; in tonight's statement, Santorum's campaign takes the issue further and tries to raise larger questions about the frontrunner's ideological authenticity.

Too bad Santorum is a knuckle dragging babbom who thinks it's ok to send our kids to war at the drop of a hat.

I laugh at his campaign slogan. He is ready to fight for America... well what he really means is he is ready to send your kids off to fight, even though he has never actually done any fighting himself. He is one of those people that want to tell other people to do the dirty work while he sits safely in a plush office.

Lord, Santorum is an idiot. And a liar. Perry never said he supported same-sex marriage at the state level. He said he supports a state's right to allow same sex marriage, which is in keeping with THE CONSTITUTION! Santorum clearly doesn't support the Constitution if he doesn't support the 10th Amendment. And if you don't support the Constitution you are not a conservative.

Santorum should go back to doing what he does best: losing by 18 points.

Santorum should not even be allowed to debate. Rick Perry has said it was a mistake. and besides Perry;s record on pro life is as strong as anyone as a govenor.Like Bachmann, ;Santorum just needs to go away.Neither one has any class because they cannot see beyond the self righteousness, Both of them are grating on me and I am sure millions of others. She has 4% and he has 2% in the polls. why are they even on the stage other than to throw granades to grab headlines

Santorum should not even be allowed to debate. Rick Perry has said it was a mistake. and besides Perry;s record on pro life is as strong as anyone as a govenor.Like Bachmann, ;Santorum just needs to go away.Neither one has any class because they cannot see beyond the self righteousness, Both of them are grating on me and I am sure millions of others. She has 4% and he has 2% in the polls. why are they even on the stage other than to throw granades to grab headlines

I hate the smirk Santorum had on his face during the debate when Perry replied to his attack. I see his true color, just like with Bachmann. They are both losers and they want to make the biggest noise during the debate, in order to gain traction. Bachmann does not even look at Perry in the face, and looked totally in the opposite direction, what a coward. Santorum is a control freak and cannot seem to accept others to defend themselves as he thinks he is right all the time. I see it very clearly now.

Texas has a lot of dry desert land where there is no population inhibiting it. If a border is built, the Mexicans can jump over without anyone noticing it, hence if we put people patrolling it it will be more effective. I think that is what is Perry is trying to say.

I think Santorum should write a book about immigration and what the border states should do. He's such an in-land state authority that he would have a lot to say.

NO ONE but NO ONE knows what the border states have to deal with. Just fly over those states and look at the borders or, visit the states. It's like a different country. The governors beg and plead for help from the FEDS but get nothing.

And about his vaccine expertise..................just stretch it out, boy, you have nothing else to say.

Both Santorum and Perry should take up needlework as a hobby. Santorum may be needling Perry on some hypocrital issue, but Perry is certainly beginning to needle the GOP establishment. It seems he wants to be THEOLOGIAN-IN-CHIEF, but he stands on a record and says he would do things that would make Jesus blush with outrage. Americans are surely going to shy away from somebody like that as President.

It is the next best thing anyone can do for handling the illegal aliens, by providing education reimbursement for those who have been in the state 3 years or more and can prove their income (I heard from one of the bloggers). Some of them can be shipped back to an American company in Mexico to work there after obtaining the education. That is great idea, since it is impossible to ship millions of illegals back to Mexico as it is.

Vaccination topic is a done deal since it is defeated by Texas legislation already. Perry wanted to prevent cancer in young girls just like preventing measles (I have a brother who died of the deadly type when he was 1 year old growing up in a post-war country in Asia), smallpox, etc. with younger children. It is my understanding Perry said it is optional. I think we should refrain from overacting like Bachmann did.

Opt IN--not opt out--is instinctively what a conservative governor would initiate through his state legislature when it's government HPV vaccines for children. Typically, as of Perry's 2010 re-election campaign, he was still standing by his circumventing the Texas legislature (with the assist of his MERCK lobbyist X chief of staff) to executive mandate HPV vaccines at $360 per student.

Gardasil is not a vaccine against cancer. It's a vaccine against a non communicable (non-infectious) virus which clears up on it's own with no symptoms in 80% of the cases.

The Gardasil HPV debacle was no Perry aberration. Just as Perry disregarded the will of Texas citizens when he bypassed his state's legislature to ram his executive mandated HPV vaccinations down their throats, he praised the goals of federal mandated Hillarycare, proposed Bi-national healthcare insurance with Mexico,--& fought for the Eminent Domain confiscation of private property to build a Globalyst "Trans-Texas Corridor" to give Mexico legal access to the U.S. over which America would not have full sovereignty. ALL Perry statist initiatives that were aborted or voided by the Texas legislature.

Perry's smirk quote: "If you think I can be bought for $5,000 dollars, I'm offended,"

Bottom line: It looks like America will be spared knowing just how much it would cost to buy Perry because his tax records show that he keeps his land deals & wealth--acquired while governor--lock boxed in blind trusts.

There is A WHOLE LOT to question about Perry's conservative authenticity--i.e., his doubling of Texas' debt, his "No Government Bailouts" sponging 17.4 billion off Obama's Stimulus to plug his last two budget deficits, his 2006 Cigarette/Business Margin Tax--the highest tax hike in Texas history, his 8.4% unemployment rates--not to mention Perry's rock solid La Raza Sanctuary State on the taxpayer's dime overrunning all America.

Wasn't it Perry who arbitrated before a liberal Aspen group that he was "just fine" with Gay Marriage (ditto abortion) because "such decisions SHOULD be left to the states"--and then flipped expediently on a dime the next day under pressure from Tea Party activists and demanded constitutional amendments to take those constitutional rights away from the states?

Just as it was Perry who characterized Social Security a "Ponzi Scheme" (i.e., A CRIME), a "Monstrous Lie" (i.e. BOGUS), "New Deal" (i.e., SOCIALIST), and "unconstitutional" (i.e., in need of being overturned)--before he INSISTED in the last debate that Social Security be a "Slam Dunk Guarantee".

Your typical career politician Perry.

Can there be a logical reason why anti-abortion/pro-illegal Perry's presidential candidates of choice have run the gamut from pro-abortion/pro illegal Al Gore in 1988--to pro-abortion/pro illegal Rudy Guiliani--to pro-illegal/King Rhino McCain--during the GOP 2008 primaries? There would seem to be a Rhino pattern there.

Santorum is just trying to stay relevant... he is attacking the credentials of an extremely conservative candidate to bring the attention back to himself. Perry has an extremely long record of conservative accomplishments in Texas, and no amount of crying on Santorum's part will change that.

Oh and one more thing, to all of these people that are flipping out about the HPV vaccine, you guys know that HPV causes cancer right? Why would anyone object to a drug that can spare a woman from this terrible disease?

To all of the people that hate the HPV vaccine, are you also opposed to your children getting vaccinated from Hep A&B, Rotavirus, DTP, MMR, or Meningitis. What about the flu shot, is that bad too?

I was kind of thinking that Perry might have a chance until the news said he was meeting with big head chapter eleven king Trump then that put him at the end of the line for me.Trump files chapter 11 every six months and laugh about it and said every one does it .